wpDiscuz <= 7.6.42 - Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference

5.3
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2025-68997
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published December 25, 2025
Last Updated January 20, 2026
Researcher Doan Dinh Van (d52v)

Description

The Comments – wpDiscuz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 7.6.42 due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform unauthorized actions.

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Vulnerability Details for Comments – wpDiscuz

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpdiscuz (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 7.6.44, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 7.6.42
Patched Version
  • 7.6.44

Recent vulnerabilities in Comments – wpDiscuz

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Comments <= 7.6.56 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'Website' Field CVE-2026-9148 7.2 mickeyjoe July 2, 2026
2 Comments – wpDiscuz <= 7.6.46 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2026-22209 4.4 Scott Moore - VulnCheck March 12, 2026
3 Comments – wpDiscuz <= 7.6.39 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass Through Account Takeover CVE-2025-13820 8.1 wesley (wcraft) December 11, 2025
4 wpDiscuz <= 7.6.33 - Missing Authorization CVE-2025-59591 4.3 Legion Hunter September 22, 2025
5 Comments – wpDiscuz <= 7.6.24 - Authentication Bypass via WordPress.com OAuth provider CVE-2024-9488 9.8 wesley (wcraft) October 24, 2024
6 Comments – wpDiscuz <= 7.6.21 - Unauthenticated HTML Injection CVE-2024-6704 5.3 Tieu Pham Trong Nhan August 1, 2024
7 Comments – wpDiscuz <= 7.6.18 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-35681 6.4 LVT-tholv2k June 6, 2024
8 wpDiscuz <= 7.6.15 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Uploaded Image Alternative Text CVE-2024-2477 6.4 Ngô Thiên An (ancorn_) April 22, 2024
9 wpDiscuz <= 7.6.12 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2023-51691 4.4 Jeongwoo-Lee(Roronoa) November 17, 2023
10 wpDiscuz <= 7.6.11 - Cross-Site Request Forgery CVE-2023-47775 4.3 R3N0 November 14, 2023

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